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C Man in the Navy

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James Taranto

Updated June 8, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

On Jan. 30, John Kerry told NBC's Tim Russert that he would release his full military records to the public, something he had refused to do during last year's campaign. It took 128 days, but yesterday the Boston Globe reported that he had done so. The records revealed what many of us had suspected: Mr. Kerry served in Vietnam. But according to the Globe, "the lack of any substantive new material about Kerry's military career in the documents raises the question of why Kerry refused for so long to waive privacy...